CORDOVA, IL - On Tuesday, November 27th, 2012, the Illinois Emergency Management Agency (IEMA) announced plans to begin offering free Potassium Iodide (KI) pills to residents living within a 10-mile radius of the state’s six operating nuclear power plants. One of those plants includes Exelon’s Quad Cities Generating Station in Cordova, Illinois.
“No one should be alarmed,” says Bill Stoermer, Communications Manager with the Quad Cities Generating Station. “That’s done as a precaution in the highly unlikely event that there would ever be any type of a significant radioactive release in the area, so it’s purely precautionary… not meant to alarm anyone, not meant to make anyone uncomfortable with having a nuclear power plant here in the Quad Cities.” ...More HERE
